People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

While you might see a cat on a hot tin roof, a dog on a hot tin roof would be yowling its head off.

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.

The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!